*I finally wrote chapter 7. Here's another warning but this time it's for violence and language. Enjoy :D

The soft sound of rain falling awoke Phineas from his peaceful sleep. He then noticed another sound. He turned to his side and Gene seemed to be crying again.

"Gene what's wrong?" he tried to get her closer to him but she said "Don't touch me…"

"Did I hurt you? What's wrong?"

"You didn't do anything wrong." Her voice cracked.

"Than what's the matter?"

"I let this go too far Phineas…"

He watched her as she got up but looked away as she put her clothes on. He sat up with the sheets still on and asked "What do you mean?" She turned around to him and replied in utter seriousness "I can't love you."

His heart shattered. Finny never thought he would ever hear those words come from her mouth. His beloved, the only person that he had grown to love in such a wholehearted way, saying bluntly to him that she can't love him. Phineas had had other girlfriends before, but Gene was the only one that he ever truly desired, not because of her looks but because of who she was. The way she carried herself and her independence drew him to her.

"Gene you can't be serious."

"I'm dead serious… and I'm sorry Finny but I don't think it would be appropriate for me to stay any longer.

She packed her suit case quickly and Phineas threw some clothes on. He tried to ask her more questions, but she didn't respond.

"Finny please let me leave." She said to him while he blocked the front door.

"Gene just tell me why you can't love me."

"I NEVER LOVED YOU OK… is that a sufficient answer for you?" she yelled out.

He moved out of her way and she shut the door angrily as she left. Not even looking back at him.

"No no…" he uttered in a broken voice. "She couldn't have been lying to me this whole time."

"Phineas please come down from your room. You've been there all week; don't you want to go outside?" Clara said to him from behind his door. She was completely unaware of what had happened the weekend before. "Phineas it's a beautiful summer day and you're letting it go to waste." He laid on his bed staring into space constantly contemplating Why did she leave? Did she ever love me? He sighed and gave in. he couldn't let his mother worry so much about him especially since his eighteenth birthday was in a couple of months. He stood up and sauntered over to his door and opened it. To his surprise Brinker was also standing next to his mother who had a cheerful smile on her face. She left them alone. "I heard you were down in the dumps." A grin appeared on Brinker's face.

"Yeah I am."

"Well I came to see ya."

Both of them went back into Finny's room and Brinker asked "So what's got you down?"

"Gene… She left."

"So you two aren't together anymore?"

"Nope… I still love her though. You have no idea how it felt to see her leave."

"Yeah it can be hard, but it's not like there aren't other girls."

Phineas then muttered "I don't want any other girl."

"Now come on Phineas; it was just puppy love." Brinker commented.

Phineas stood up abruptly and yelled out "You don't get it. You don't. You didn't make love to the person that you loved most in the world and then have them rip your heart out by saying that they NEVER loved you!"

Brinker watched the tears roll down Finny's face. He had never seen him cry before. "Calm down ok… I didn't know." He sat down again and wiped the hot tears off his face. "You have her address right?" Brinker inquired. "Yeah" Phineas quietly responded. "If you really want to get to the bottom of this you should go see her then."

He nodded his head and looked into Brinker's amber eyes and thanked him for visiting.

The hot humid summer weather in Georgia was a new experience for Phineas. The day after Brinker's visit he had decided to take the advice that was given to him. He went to go find Gene. Although the weather wasn't so great; overall Phineas enjoyed the south. Everything seemed so eye catching and interesting, but he came to do one thing and one thing only.

The sun began to set by the time he finally found the correct address. He was nervous, a feeling that was alien to him, as he stepped on the crisp grass on the front yard of the house. It was a strange sight. From the front it seemed like a normal home. A screened front porch and it was two stories high with a large tree right next to it, but the closer that Finny got he began to notice that the house was slowly deteriorating. The white paint of the walls was chipping off revealing the old wood and the stairs were also rotting at the edges. This can't be it he thought.

Finny slowly went up the stairs and opened the door and stepped into the porch. He then knocked on the front door. He could hear yelling from behind the door but couldn't make out anything. He could only distinguish between a female and male voice.

The door creaked open and there she stood. Gene. Her eyes filled with terror as she saw him standing right in front of her. "What are you doing here?" she whispered. He looked at her and couldn't believe his eyes. Just like the house she too seemed to be deteriorating as well. "Gene are you ok?" he asked. Before she could answer a middle aged man opened the door wider and pushed Gene out of the way. He was a bit tanner than Gene and had dark brown eyes. He also was taller and had a heavier build than Phineas. "What do you want!" he demanded in a strong voice. "I just wanted to speak with Gene for a moment." Phineas said respectfully. "Well I'm her father and anything you need to tell her can come through me. So what do you need to say?" he stated gruffly.

"Well Sir I-"

"Call me Mr. Forrester"

Gene then cut in "He was going to leave so you don't have to worry about it."

"Alright then…" He glared at Finny and said "You better leave then boy, unless you want to be full of lead."

He shut the door in Phineas' face and he was about to leave but he then heard the two of them arguing again. He listened to the conversation more closely this time.

"You Bitch. You worthless Bitch!"

"I swear I didn't know him."

"You're just a WHORE and you know it."

"Shut Up! I do everything while you go drink!"

"Shut your mouth! You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me!"

"Yeah and my mother wouldn't be dead if it wasn't for YOU!" Gene screamed and He then heard a loud thud.

Phineas busted through the door to see that she was being beaten by her Father. Finny punched him and got him away from Gene. She was bleeding. Both men fought but even though Phineas had the advantage of being younger he was quickly being subdued by the larger male.

"I thought you left…" her father hissed. "Well I didn't and you are a coward. No man would hit his daughter." He threw Phineas to the floor and started to kick him. "That's my business." He growled. Gene threw herself onto Finny shielding him from her father's brutal blows. "Please stop." She weakly cried. Finny felt her tears seeping through his shirt along with her warm blood. Gene fell unconscious. "Bitch deserved it." Her father said triumphantly. Phineas enraged by his words tackled him to the ground and yelled out "YOU BASTARD! YOU FUCKING BASTARD."

*Oooh cliff hanger. Sorry guys, but I will try to write more of Ch. 8 and please review on things that you did or didn't like and DFTBA :D